@article{ref1,
title="The impact of death awareness on sizes of self-representational objects",
journal="British journal of social psychology",
year="2018",
author="McCabe, Simon and Vail, Kenneth E. and Arndt, Jamie",
volume="57",
number="1",
pages="174-188",
abstract="People seem to have a tendency to increase the relative size of self-representational objects. Prior research suggests that motivational factors may fuel that tendency, so the present research built from terror management theory to examine whether existential motivations - engendered by concerns about death - may have similar implications for self-relevant size biases. Specifically, across two studies (total N = 288), we hypothesized that reminders of death would lead participants to inflate the size of self-representational objects. Both studies suggested that relative to reminders of pain, mortality salience led participants to construct larger clay sculptures of themselves (vs. others; Study 1) and a larger ostensible video game avatar for the self (vs. others; Study 2).<br><br>© 2017 The British Psychological Society.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0144-6665",
doi="10.1111/bjso.12227",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12227"
}